(The Root) — A who’s who of famous black married folks and other notables gathered on a cold Wednesday night in Harlem, to fete with great warmth the life of beloved actress and activist Ruby Dee ...

Iconic actress Ruby Dee died Wednesday at the age of 91. As the world mourns her death, real fans remember that her career was versatile and her life was multilayered. Suggested Reading The Best Black ...

REUTERS - Legendary stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who won acclaim in theater, film and television and became a notable figure in the U.S. civil rights movement, died peacefully at home, a friend ...

Ruby Dee has died at the age of 91. Dee - an actress, writer and poet and civil rights activist - passed away on Wednesday (June 11) at her home in New Rochelle, New York, with family members at her ...

This past Monday at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the stars of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch celebrated the 75th ...

We hear the actress Ruby Dee performing the speech made famous by the former slave, abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Turth.

A look back at actress Ruby Dee's versatile careerOssie Davis, left, and Ruby Dee pose in front of their movie poster at the opening night gala of their film "Gone Are the Days!" at the Trans-Lux East ...

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee at the 1989 Cannes Festival for the showing of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Born Ruby Ann Wallace in the early 1920s in Cleveland, actress and civil rights activist Ruby ...

The great actress, civil rights activist, poet Ruby Dee has died at the age of 91. Her career as a performer spanned seven decades, beginning in the 1940s. She blazed new ground as an African-American ...

(Reuters) - Legendary stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who won acclaim in theater, film and television and became a notable figure in the U.S. civil rights movement, died peacefully at home, a ...